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 ====Events and Opportunities==== ====Events and Opportunities====
  
-see [[events and opportunities]]+See [[events and opportunities]], with links to upcoming conferences, workshops, fairs and other gatherings relevant to Marine CoLab. 
  
 ====Workshops===== ====Workshops=====
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 The workshops are designed to provide the space and resources for a small group of organisations to meet regularly over a two-year period to explore existing practices, and identify and experiment with new ones. Marine CoLABoration is particularly interested in looking at how better to bridge the gaps between innovative local practice and influence at national and EU levels, and how to convey the intrinsic as well as socioeconomic value of the seas. The workshops are designed to provide the space and resources for a small group of organisations to meet regularly over a two-year period to explore existing practices, and identify and experiment with new ones. Marine CoLABoration is particularly interested in looking at how better to bridge the gaps between innovative local practice and influence at national and EU levels, and how to convey the intrinsic as well as socioeconomic value of the seas.
  
-=== Workshop #1 - January 2015 ===+{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/10057905935}}\\ 
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 +=== Workshop #1 201501 ===
  
 On 15 January 2015 a group of 16 people came together for a day-long [[workshop 201501|workshop]] at the Gulbenkian Foundation in London to co-create a range of scenarios for Marine CoLABoration. The aim of the workshop was for participants to get to know each other as creative individuals and glimpse their shared vision(s) for the initiative. Consideration of the oceans inevitably surfaces many 'big' problems, which need multiple perspectives brought to bear to incite meaningful change. Thus the workshop explored the nature of value, economic and social assumptions which impact the significance and complexity of the issues involved. Scenarios were developed which explored more sustainable economic and governance systems as the world experiences continued effects of climate change. On 15 January 2015 a group of 16 people came together for a day-long [[workshop 201501|workshop]] at the Gulbenkian Foundation in London to co-create a range of scenarios for Marine CoLABoration. The aim of the workshop was for participants to get to know each other as creative individuals and glimpse their shared vision(s) for the initiative. Consideration of the oceans inevitably surfaces many 'big' problems, which need multiple perspectives brought to bear to incite meaningful change. Thus the workshop explored the nature of value, economic and social assumptions which impact the significance and complexity of the issues involved. Scenarios were developed which explored more sustainable economic and governance systems as the world experiences continued effects of climate change.
  
-We began by we looking at how Marine CoLAB could change the world - from individual, collective and global perspectives, today and in the future. When we looked into the previous world-changing experiences of the participants, we found that the group is keen to seize opportunities to reframe challenges and find ways to refresh whole systems. To be effective change-makers you told us you required appropriate capacities and a youthful, entrepreneurial spirit. Aside from your own qualities, you also need other people. World-changing happens through trusted collaborations and networks, and often with a strong social safety net. In the process of changing the world, you felt excited, inspired, rewarded, free and happy, but also exhausted and often frustrated. +We began by we looking at how Marine CoLAB could change the world - from individual, collective and global perspectives, today and in the future. When we looked into the previous [[workshop_201501#worldchanging|world-changing experiences]] of the participants, we found that the group is keen to seize opportunities to reframe challenges and find ways to refresh whole systems. To be effective change-makers you told us you required appropriate capacities and a youthful, entrepreneurial spirit. Aside from your own qualities, you also need other people. World-changing happens through trusted collaborations and networks, and often with a strong social safety net. In the process of changing the world, you felt excited, inspired, rewarded, free and happy, but also exhausted and often frustrated. 
  
-We talked about what we know, presume and don’t know about valuing the oceans. It was apparent that there is a lot of knowledge about oceans in the group, but also some confusion about what 'valuing' oceans actually means and how it can contribute to healthier eco-systems. Rooted in the knowledge about the present, we probed what the emerging trends and weak signals might be, and questioned how valuing the oceans might evolve. Climate change and the growth economy emerged as he most important, but also most uncertain drivers of change for Marine CoLABoration. +We talked about what we [[workshop_201501#what_is_known_presumed_and_unknown|know, presume and don’t know]] about valuing the oceans. It was apparent that there is a lot of knowledge about oceans in the group, but also some confusion about what 'valuing' oceans actually means and how it can contribute to healthier eco-systems. Rooted in the knowledge about the present, we probed what the emerging trends and weak signals might be, and questioned how valuing the oceans might evolve. Climate change and the growth economy emerged as he most important, but also most uncertain drivers of change for Marine CoLABoration. 
  
-Based on these two drivers, we created four scenarios and asked how Marine CoLAB would change the world in four quite different yet possible futures. What emerged were a few interesting directions, each of which involved changing the world through establishing or strengthening connections. Marine CoLab was creating links between the ocean and society, between governments and corporations, it was bridging the gaps between local and global governance of oceans, and working towards sustainable growth by integrating values with innovation. Even though these answers emerged from speculative scenarios set six to ten years in the future, any of them could become a Marine CoLAB initiative much sooner than that. Whether they will be taken up depends on your interests and experience. +Based on these two drivers, we created four [[workshop_201501?&#scenarios|scenarios]] and asked how Marine CoLAB would change the world in four quite different yet possible futures. What emerged were a few interesting directions, each of which involved changing the world through establishing or strengthening connections. Marine CoLab was creating links between the ocean and society, between governments and corporations, it was bridging the gaps between local and global governance of oceans, and working towards sustainable growth by integrating values with innovation. Even though these [[workshop_201501#answers_to_the_core_question|answers]] emerged from speculative scenarios set six to ten years in the future, any of them could become a Marine CoLAB initiative much sooner than that. Whether they will be taken up depends on your interests and experience. 
  
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 +[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/16325221402/in/set-72157650383972831|larger image]] on flickr
  
 Further details can be found at [[workshop 201501]] Further details can be found at [[workshop 201501]]
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 CGF's blogpost about the workshop: [[http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/blogs/environment/111_Think-of-a-situation-in-which-you-felt-able-to-change-the-world.html|Think of a situation in which you felt able to change the world]] CGF's blogpost about the workshop: [[http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/blogs/environment/111_Think-of-a-situation-in-which-you-felt-able-to-change-the-world.html|Think of a situation in which you felt able to change the world]]
  
-=== Workshop #2 - March 2015 ===+=== Workshop #2 201503 ===
  
-The second workshop of the Marine CoLAB builds on ideas and suggestions that emerged during the first meeting in January. In the second workshop we looked at what the participants want to contribute to Marine CoLAB, which challenges and hypotheses are present in the group and which specific experiments can be designed to respond to these challenges. +The second workshop of the Marine CoLAB builds on ideas and suggestions that emerged during the first meeting in January. In the second workshop we looked at what the participants want to contribute to Marine CoLAB, which challenges and hypotheses are present in the group and which specific [[experiments]] can be designed to respond to these challenges. 
  
-The challenges that emerged from the participants current work and discussions during the workshop included systemic change and connecting disparate actions and experiments, public engagement with rules, valuing the cultural dimension of oceans, as well as the need to change perceptions of marine conservation in general and NGOs in particular. Based on these challenges, the participants designed five experiments that could be implemented on the short term (until July 2015), but can also form the basis of longer term investigations within Marine CoLAB. +The [[workshop_201503#challengeshypotheses|challenges and hypotheses]] that emerged from the participants current work and discussions during the workshop included systemic change and connecting disparate actions and experiments, public engagement with rules, valuing the cultural dimension of oceans, as well as the need to change perceptions of marine conservation in general and NGOs in particular. Based on these challenges, the participants designed five [[workshop_201503#experiments]] that could be implemented on the short term (until July 2015), but can also form the basis of longer term investigations within Marine CoLAB.  
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 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/16624594937/}} 
 +[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/16624594937/in/set-72157650383972831|larger image]] on flickr
  
-{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/16624594937/}} 
  
 Notes can be found at [[workshop 201503]] Notes can be found at [[workshop 201503]]
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 +=== Workshop #3 201505 ===
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 +The third Marine CoLAB workshop had a twofold purpose: building on the themes and experiments from the previous workshops and deepening the connection with the participants’ organisational contexts and current work. While the first two workshops focused on individual personalities and talents, in the May workshop the participants introduced their professional contexts. This gave some indications about how existing work could contribute to Marine CoLAB and perhaps form new connections for (bilateral) collaborations and experiments. Participants continued their discussion around the three [[workshop_201505#emerging_themes|emerging themes]] of Systems Change, Changing Perceptions and Public Engagement. The discussion presented these themes as broad challenges for Marine CoLAB as a whole and looked at the relationship to the proposed (or new) experiments. 
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 +In the afternoon the group agreed on the experiments they will develop until the next workshop and settled on [[plastic_pollution_experiment|Plastic Pollution]] and [[transparency_experiment|Transparency of Marine Industries]]. Two of the experiments designed at in March, [[game_on_experiment|Game On!]] and [[gone_fishing_in_the_thames_experiment|Gone Fishing in the Thames]] will continue to be developed but were not discussed further at the workshop. Before the designs were finalised, they were tested using a role playing exercise called a pre-enactment to challenge some of the participants’ assumptions from different points of view. The workshop ended with a design and planning session for the groups to clarify their implementation plans. Follow-up conversations are planned through conference calls, emails and wiki updates, aiming to have the first experimental results to present at the next workshop. 
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 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/17400811095/}}
 +[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/17400811095/in/set-72157650383972831|larger image]] on flickr
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 +Notes can be found at [[workshop 201505]]
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 ===Planned workshops=== ===Planned workshops===
  
-  * workshop 201505 
   * workshop 201507   * workshop 201507
 +  * workshop 201509
 +  * workshop 201511
  
 ===Possible developments==== ===Possible developments====
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   * [[Recommended Reading]]    * [[Recommended Reading]] 
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